It took the world's most advanced digital pioneers, when the computer as we know it was barely born, to stave off Nazi conquest of the Middle East. And it took Gershom Gorenberg to write the true history of the "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" – as if it was a novel.

This episode is part of a series made possible by the German Government which examines Israel's relationship with the EU and European countries.